Jeff Brouws
October 21, Needles, California Portfolio, 1995
This is a portfolio of twelve 12 x 12 archival pigment prints. Jeff Brouws has spent over twenty …
Jeff Brouws documents the contemporary American landscape in photographs that also reveal traces of history: “I often feel like a visual anthropologist recording our present day civilization,” he has said of his practice. Brouws’ photographs reveal a civilization transitioning out of an industrial economy into an undefined future. Among the evidence of this transition, which Brouws presents in a deadpan yet poetic style, are abandoned gas stations, crumbling factories, and highway vistas punctuated with commercial advertisements.
This is a portfolio of twelve 12 x 12 archival pigment prints. Jeff Brouws has spent over twenty years exploring and documenting the American landscape, often driving over 30,000 miles a year. He approaches photography like a visual anthropologist, analyzing our material culture with an outsider's clarity of …
Jeff Brouws documents the contemporary American landscape in photographs that also reveal traces of history: “I often feel like a visual anthropologist recording our present day civilization,” he has said of his practice. Brouws’ photographs reveal a civilization transitioning out of an industrial economy into an undefined future. Among the evidence of this transition, which Brouws presents in a deadpan yet poetic style, are abandoned gas stations, crumbling factories, and highway vistas punctuated with commercial advertisements.
